DaVita announced Tuesday that the United States Attorney’s Office for St. Louis completed its investigation into the company and will not take any action for allegations that the Denver-based dialysis company had improper relationships with physicians and pharmaceutical companies, or that it overused the anemia drug Epogen.

Kristen Leigh Painter was a former business reporter who focused on airlines and aerospace coverage. She joined The Post in September 2011 and departed for the Minneapolis Star-Tribune in August 2014. She graduated from the University of Colorado Boulder with a master's in journalism after earning a bachelor's in history from the University of Wisconsin La Crosse.

The owners of Boulder’s Sterling University Peaks apartments, who this summer were cited for illegally subdividing 92 bedrooms in the complex, have reached an agreement to settle the case for $410,000, the city announced Thursday.